Here’s an interesting website published by the Rocky Mountain Institute which allows you to track oil imports and dollar outflows over time – from 1973 to the summer of 2008.
RMI includes some theories on how to cut our dependence on foreign oil including energy efficiency, alternative fuels, and using domestic natural gas instead of foreign oil. The RMI plan is “a roadmap for the United States to get completely off oil by 2050.”
This is one of many plans – including Google’s “Clean Energy 2030” – which are completely in line with the Pickens Plan but take decades to reach their goals.
T. Boone Pickens has always held that “natural gas is a bridge fuel” that is, it is a temporary replacement for foreign oil until new technologies and techniques come on line as transportation fuels. Batteries and hydrogen are the two most mentioned.
The Pickens Plan provides a temporary path toward reducing our need for foreign oil by (in addition to using natural gas for moving heavy trucks and fleet vehicles) using wind and solar power while increasing energy efficiencies and improving conservation in homes and buildings.
To see the map click HERE.
— The Pickens Team